Great talk by Tessa Gote from the group of @armstrongchembio.bsky.social of the @led3hub.bsky.social at #LeidenBioscience. She talked about the importance of sialic acid esterases for the virulence of S. pneumoniae and how she is working towards developing inhibitors for these enzymes.
I'm excited that this collaborative work with Alan @acartmell47.bsky.social is finally out. We have developed some powerful tools to study carbohydrate sulfatases (a tricky class of enzyme!) and shown how they can be used with enzymes from host-associated bacteria.
Extraordinary opportunity to join as PhD a super network!!!!
Stephan Hacker
The power of sugars. #ERCAdG
I am particularly happy to announce that Ive been assigned an ERC AdG (PE5) to crack the LPS code. thanks to my group!!! @erc.europa.eu
